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I admit of being guilty of only reading half of warblers post to be honest, far too theoretical for me. On what MW has done this season, no one can judge his best distance, that is the only way I can look at it. Both runs were far too bad to be true, whatever the reason, under-/overtrained, but we talk about a dual Cheltenham Festival winner here, so class is not an issue, and he did not show any so far, so there clearly must be other reasons and one can certainly NOT discuss his best trip on evidence of the two runs.

If he would have been fighting for 2nd with OV and ED, one could have said, OK, it was not the best Arkle blabla, but ... well, see above.

[QUOTE="crazyhorse, post: 2128295, member: 65161"] I admit of being guilty of only reading half of warblers post to be honest, far too theoretical for me. On what MW has done this season, no one can judge his best distance, that is the only way I can look at it. Both runs were far too bad to be true, whatever the reason, under-/overtrained, but we talk about a dual Cheltenham Festival winner here, so class is not an issue, and he did not show any so far, so there clearly must be other reasons and one can certainly NOT discuss his best trip on evidence of the two runs. If he would have been fighting for 2nd with OV and ED, one could have said, OK, it was not the best Arkle blabla, but ... well, see above. [/QUOTE]

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